From Ancient Greek μετωνυμία (metōnumía, “change of name”) (synchronically, meatonaime (“metonymy”) + -ach (adjectival suffix)), from μετά (metá, “other”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”).
meatonaimeach (genitive singular masculine meatonaimigh, genitive singular feminine meatonaimí, plural meatonaimeacha, comparative meatonaimí)
| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | meatonaimeach | mheatonaimeach | meatonaimeacha; mheatonaimeacha2 | |
| vocative | mheatonaimigh | meatonaimeacha | ||
| genitive | meatonaimí | meatonaimeacha | meatonaimeach | |
| dative | meatonaimeach; mheatonaimeach1 |
mheatonaimeach; mheatonaimigh (archaic) |
meatonaimeacha; mheatonaimeacha2 | |
| Comparative | níos meatonaimí | |||
| Superlative | is meatonaimí | |||
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| meatonaimeach | mheatonaimeach | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.